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Recognize Leadership Traps

As a leader, you might not want to think about leadership traps. Aside from the obvious—acting in a controlling manner as opposed to a serving manner—many of the traps I’ve seen have been about product ownership. Here are the traps I’ll highlight:

• When the team has several people who act as the product owner.
• When the team has no product owner.
• When the team has a business analyst who masquerades as a product owner.

These traps prevent team members from knowing what they need to do when.

Trap: One Team Has Several People Acting as Product Owner

I’ve encountered several organizations where the product manager “owns” a product, and negotiates for people to work on that product. Of course, that means begging, borrowing, ...